Traws Pharma (TRAW) and Its Competitors Head to Head Survey

Traws Pharma (NASDAQ:TRAW) is one of 1,000 public companies in the “Pharmaceutical preparations” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Traws Pharma to related businesses based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Traws Pharma and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Traws Pharma	-60,641.14%	-144.95%	-633.17%
Traws Pharma Competitors	-3,712.57%	-260.49%	-31.62%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Traws Pharma and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Traws Pharma	0	0	0	0	N/A
Traws Pharma Competitors	7119	19581	45490	1054	2.55

As a group, “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies have a potential upside of 60.29%. Given Traws Pharma’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Traws Pharma has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

7.9% of Traws Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.9% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Traws Pharma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of shares of all “Pharmaceutical preparations” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Traws Pharma has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Traws Pharma’s competitors have a beta of 0.84, indicating that their average share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Traws Pharma and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Traws Pharma	$226,000.00	-$18.95 million	-5.98
Traws Pharma Competitors	$9.84 billion	$154.70 million	-4.03

Traws Pharma’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Traws Pharma. Traws Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Traws Pharma competitors beat Traws Pharma on 8 of the 10 factors compared.

Traws Pharma Company Profile

Traws Pharma, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing small molecule oral product candidates for respiratory viral diseases and cancer. The company is developing investigational novel therapies for influenza and COVID19 that are designed to address treatment resistance, such as TRX01 (travatrelvir), a Mpro/3CL inhibitor in development for the treatment of COVID19; and TRX100 (viroxavir), an endonuclease inhibitor in development for the treatment of pandemic influenza. It is also developing narazaciclib, a multi-kinase CDK4/6 inhibitor, which is in Phase 1/2 clinical trials in patients with cancer, with or without co-administration of letrozole to define the recommended phase 2 dose for further development in endometrial cancer; and oral rigosertib, which is administered alone or in combination for investigation in various cancers. The company was formerly known as Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Traws Pharma, Inc. in April 2024. Traws Pharma, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.